We live in an age where vapid and vain reality stars and those who are famous for being famous are glorified public figures. It's an over-saturation of self-absorbed spotlight-lovers.
White Girl Problems is the mock memoir of Babe Walker, a fictional account of a rich and famous girl who could very well be a Kardashian, a Hilton, or someone on The Hills.
She takes us through her life story while she's in rehab (Hollywood starlet style), from her "difficult" childhood to her struggles as a young adult - and it is hilarious.
Babe's BFF is, in actual fact, her frenemy (friend-enemy), she has a gay best friend, a Jamaican minder-slash-mother figure, a loving but disconnected rich father and a shallow grandmother who refuses to get old. The "white girl problems" she takes us through are centred on her self-obsession: her weight, her clothes, her sex life and even her "hideous" vagina.
White Girl Problems pokes fun at the state of pop culture. It's not to be taken seriously, although it is frightening when one considers that women like Babe Walker do exist .
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